Strange udev camera problem and solution?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Paul Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to finish the thread,
> 
> SUBSYSTEM!="usb*", GOTO="libgphoto2_rules_end"
> 
> Fixes the problem for Edgy.
> 
> I must say, this problem has been around for quite a while and it
> should have been patched long ago. It is such a basic simple thing but
> it is things like this that turn people off from Linux. Your average
> user cannot solve this sort of problem, for them it just is "Linux
> cannot see my camera"

I agree.  I don't have a camera, but I can't imagine how this happened.
 There must have been no testing at all.

Do you know if a bug's been filed?

Matt Flaschen